muser

April 07, 2013 in 35, b+w, backlight, bar, bokeh, candid, close up, contrast, eyes, face, friedrichshafen, germany, grain, hair, indoors, mood, nex 7, people, personal, portrait, restaurant, sel, shadow, smile, sony

this week my stinchen turned 28. and this year we will reach 3333 joint days. without you i would be nothing. you teach me the things i don't preside over. be sure, i'm going to look out for you carefully.

clashing horns

April 06, 2013 in 50, action, agriculture, animal, b+w, bermatingen, bokeh, candid, contrast, countryside, eyes, face, germany, grain, hair, light, nature, nex 7, old photo, portrait, sel, shadow, sony

a few weeks ago i stumbled upon google's nik collection discount: only 149$ for six pretty useful lightroom plug-in applications, srp actually round about 500$, that sounded too good. go for it!

today i'd like to show a first result, that was processed with the newer version of silver efex pro - i had used the predecessor for a while, too - and explain, with which workflow the shown sample, that was photographed today a few minutes on foot away from our home, was edited by me: firstly the import in lightroom, application of lens correction, convertion to tiff and transfer to sharpener pro 3 (part 1) for raw pre sharpening, in between buffering in lightroom, transfer to silver efex pro 2 and main editing, again fransfer to sharpener pro (part 2) for final output sharpening and finally export the image from lightroom to jpg. pooh, and all that with my good old laptop... i'm going to familiarise myself with the new software during the coming weeks and i will surely publish more samples.

industrial equaliser

April 04, 2013 in 35, architecture, art, b+w, building, contrast, deeper meaning, facility, friedrichshafen, fun, germany, minimalistic, nex 7, pattern, sel, shadow, site, sony, stairs, townscape, urban

ermm, what do you think? is it the rock or the pop preset? the depths and the highs are definitely boosted...

cornet hopper

April 04, 2013 in 35, b+w, bar, bokeh, candid, contrast, face, germany, grain, indoors, light, night, nex 7, old photo, people, portrait, restaurant, sel, shadow, sony

time has come: winter has finally gone here at lake constance, spring is bypassed and we'll fluently proceed to summer, hopefully. such being the case we indulged in the first ice cream today, although almost zero degrees made it harder for us to enjoy the refreshment.

nightly 2cv

April 02, 2013 in 35, architecture, art, atmosphere, blue, building, car, contrast, colour, darkness, facility, germany, glass, light, mood, nex 7, night, pattern, portrait, ravensburg, orange, sel, shadow, sony, street, townscape, urban, wall, window, citroën

i've no idea why this citroën 2cv has to carve out its lonely existence in the darkest corner of this car dealer's facilities. although it sets a nice scene, especially in combination with the large windows and the coloured lights, driving on the road in the background the 2cv would be an even better subject.

crumb snoot

April 01, 2013 in 35, backlight, bokeh, brown, candid, colour, corridor, eyes, face, friedrichshafen, germany, hair, indoors, light, nex 7, orange, people, portrait, personal, sel, sony, wall, window, yellow, high key, children, baby

today, on easter monday, we visited our friends tanja and marcel, who recently had their second baby. during the afternoon i had the privilege of portraying the whole family, including my friend mika, the crumb snoot, and even his grandma and his grandpa. compared with his only a few weeks old sister, mika only seems to keep still, when he is sleeping or eating. so i had to take advantage of that circumstance for the snapshot above, although you usually should not photograph people at table.

kittens in da club

April 01, 2013 in 35, action, art, atmosphere, bar, bokeh, candid, cat, colour, corridor, contrast, darkness, deeper meaning, face, eyes, germany, fun, hair, indoors, kitty, light, nex 7, night, people, portrait, ravensburg, red, sel, sony, vintage, party, disco

some people represent the personalisation of self-confidence. regardless, of whether i like their doings, styles, apperances or whether there is a doubting soul underneath the cool exterior: just because of their bravery these people earn my respect.

tongue of snow

March 30, 2013 in 35, bermatingen, bokeh, fun, germany, green, nature, nex 7, rain, red, sel, snow, sony, winter, slide

of course, the closing winter wants to have fun for the last time. btw: there are also five new images in the glimpse gallery...

following the joint

March 30, 2013 in 35, architecture, b+w, backlight, bermatingen, bokeh, building, contrast, corridor, darkness, facility, germany, grain, historic, home, indoors, light, monument, nex 7, night, pattern, personal, sel, shadow, sony, door, floor, cobble, stone

there are always two sides of the medal: unfortunately our time in the historic flat here at lake constance won't be everlasting, where the change will probably bring along a lot of new opportunities. so it's high time for me to document the characteristics of the more than 300 years old building more often now, before we will have to leave this place in the near future.

power slide

March 29, 2013 in 50, atmosphere, bermatingen, colour, countryside, darkness, field, germany, landscape, light, minimalistic, nature, nex 7, orange, sel, shadow, sky, sony, spring, sun, sunset, wire

while searching for a way to transfer its energy into the grid, today the sun made a first attempt with sliding down the power line over the horizon.